by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 2, 2024 | Contemporary Christianity, Special Occasions
1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. I remember singing the chorus when I first came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ: “Rise up O men of God, Have done with lesser things, Give heart and soul and mind and...
by Ray Viola | Aug 16, 2024 | Contemporary Christianity
Luke 14.26,27 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. Let me...
by Ray Viola | Aug 14, 2024 | Contemporary Christianity, Contemporary Issues
“And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish;...
by Ray Viola | Aug 12, 2024 | Contemporary Christianity
Mark 9.2-8 And after six days Jesus taketh [with him] Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can...
by Ray Viola | Aug 9, 2024 | Contemporary Christianity
Today’s blog is more on the personal side. It is an observation stemming from a post bible study conversation with a brother. After this study, a brother from a Reformed Church said to me, are you a Calvinist? I asked why he would say that. He said because I...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Aug 6, 2024 | Contemporary Christianity, Contemporary Issues
Isaiah 40:3-5 The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and...